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Outlook Express Links Don’t Work

December 21, 2007 By Terry Stockdale

I received an interesting question from subscriber Maria. She has been using Firefox, as many people do, including me. In this case, she had just upgraded her Internet Explorer to IE7 and was having problems with Outlook Express.

Maria wrote:

Terry, I currently have Fire Fox and Internet Explorer on my computer. I just added the Internet Explorer as a browser after removing it some time ago. Outlook Express is my default email handler. The problem is that in Outlook Express the links don’t open since I added Internet Explorer. [Tech guy] at [a local computer shop] says that it seams like the two are competing I am hoping that you have some ideas as I have tried a few from a Google search.

Fortunately for Maria, I had seen this problem before and thought I knew the answer.

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Filed Under: Bug Fixes, Communications, Email, IE, Outlook Express, Patches, Pre-installed Software, Security Fixes, Software, System, Terry's Computer Tips, Usability, Web browsing

Forwarding a Picture using Email

September 2, 2007 By Terry Stockdale

Reader Geraldine Astbury wrote recently with a problem she was having with Windows and emailing:

Hi Terry,
Please can you help me? When I do a right click on a photo and scroll down to ‘mail recipient’ it goes to my Mozilla email programme. How do I change it to go to either Outlook Express or Incredimail? I don’t always want to use Mozilla. Sometimes when I receive certain attachments as eml ‘s Mozilla won’t open them, so it’s put me off using it. I can’t find out how to fix this problem in Mozilla even though I’ve really looked at all I can think of. Have you any ideas about that too?
Many Thanks
Geraldine Astbury.
PS I use Windows XP

Geraldine is trying to use a Windows XP function to email a picture.

If you are using Windows Explorer, the Windows file management tool, you can right-click on a file and you get a special context menu that pops up. It’s called a context menu because the menus options change depending on the context – depending on the circumstances under which you have right-clicked. These circumstances include the file type.

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Filed Under: Email, Terry's Computer Tips, Windows XP

Compacting Email Folders

April 9, 2007 By Terry Stockdale

There is a little trick to the way POP3 email program like Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and Thunderbird store the email messages you receive. A “deleted message” is not really deleted! Did you know that?

All your email program does is to rewrite a few characters in the file in order to tell itself that a particular email has been “deleted.”

One particular marking in the file indicates that the email has been deleted, so the program shows it in the Trash folder. A different marking shows it has been deleted from the Trash folder. But, it really has not been removed from the big email.

Eudora to Become Open-Source

March 25, 2007 By Terry Stockdale

The final commercial version of my favorite email program Eudora was issued during the week of October 15, 2007. We finally got a new version, updating from v7.01 to 7.1.0.9.

There was another piece of good news — in plain sight — further down the web page at www.Eudora.com. Qualcomm, the phone manufacturer, has finally decided to release Eudora to the Open Source community!

Eudora is scheduled to become open source software, meaning anyone who wants can edit it and change it, in the first half of 2007.

Read more in Eudora to Become Open-Source

If you’re already using Eudora, and if you’re using it in “Sponsored Mode,” be sure to upgrade to the latest version before March 31st. On that date, the earlier versions of Sponsored Mode will become disabled.

Filed Under: Communications, Email, Eudora, Terry's Computer Tips

Email Reliability in this Internet World

February 26, 2007 By Terry Stockdale

How reliable is email in today’s Internet world? Perfect, isn’t it? You would think that it would be completely reliable — we use it all the time. All we’re doing is pushing around electrons and we’ve known how to do that, in one way or another, for an awfully long time.

Whether we are writing to friends, sending a joke, sending a picture, or sending a business message, email has become a part of our lives. We’ve come to rely on it for easy communications. We don’t even understand our friends that don’t “do” email.

However, as we have increased the reliability of the transmission system. We have also increased the noise and the noise filters that we use to keep control. We also have this concept known as “information overload.” We usually hear about information overload with regard to a person being overloaded with the quantity of information they receive — from mail, from TV, from radio, from emails, from web site.

Unfortunately, we also have information overload with routers, email servers, and email forwarding systems. Sometimes, they get so many emails at one time that they get behind. Occasionally, they lose a few. This is one of the biggest dangers (as opposed to the waste of time and resources issue) with spam. Unfortunately, there is not much we, as individuals, can do about that.

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Some of the other problems we have with email servers also are caused by spam — more accurately, by the measures taken to try to control or to eliminate spam. Our emails occasionally get discarded by email servers that decide they are spam — even when they are not.

If you use an anti-spam program, or if your ISP does, hopefully you have followed my advice from the July 11, 2005 issue of my newsletter. You can read my thoughts about spam (I hate spam!) and how to keep it out of your Inbox.

Filed Under: Anti-spam, Email, Terry's Computer Tips

When I delete an email, it’s gone — right?

February 22, 2007 By Terry Stockdale

There is a little trick to the way POP3 email programs like Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora and Thunderbird store the email messages you receive. A “deleted message” is not really deleted! Did you know that?

Outlook and Outlook Express store all the emails in one huge file, even if you have your emails split between multiple folders. Eudora creates a separate file for each email folder, such as Inbox, Outbox, Trash, Junk and any folders the user creates. Thunderbird similarly uses multiple files for emails.

Personally, I like Eudora‘s & Thunderbird’s approach — if I should ever have a file corruption issue with one of the email folders, I’m not in danger of losing all of my emails, just those in that one folder.

Filed Under: Email, Eudora, Optimize, Outlook Express, Security, Terry's Computer Tips, Thunderbird